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david hockney on imagine bbc tv uk

From:     tor
Category: Art
Date:     01 July 2009
Time:     10:18 AM

Review:

Nice one david. More and more the irascible old yorkshireman, the show presented the voice-over 
talking about the directors journey (Sigh). Hockney is a great character and really cares  about 
painting, and it was interesting seeing his assistant helphing him set up his easles.. But, but, but, his 
paintings are just not good enough, somehow despite his fantastic graphic skill, his impressionisty 
colours, his myriad approaches, they still look like illustrations, pictures  which employ a style for 
visual joy, but don't demand a style to be created. Yes, maybe if Hockney keeps going with outdoors  
painting (and avoids those jigsaws of little canvases making big ones, why not just paint one big one), 
then he will break through his own talent and into somewhere new.


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